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"If you really want to learn C++, I advise against any and all online tutorials and against most books. Without any kind of quality control, many professional book writers published many awful C++ textbooks that may be easy to read and sell well, but teach lies. Stick with the community-verified book list available at StackOverflow"

In other words, use the StackOverflow list to choose the right teaching material [2]. A Tour of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) has been a good refresher, with C++ Primer (Stanley Lippman, Josée Lajoie, and Barbara E. Moo) as the primary reference for further clarification. Also use GeeksForGeeks and LeetCode practice problems.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-book-for-learning-c+... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...

Programming challenge: filter out (or otherwise remove) the sky from the video to isolate the comet surface for better analysis.

Often in these situations the funding company would critisize you for underdelivering, since you have obviously demonstrated that you are capable of delivering X,Y, and Z in one month, but have since not contributed anything tangible in the following two months.

On a graph, you would see a spike for the first month, and a plateau for the 2nd and 3rd. Execs do not like seeing downward sloping trends, and middle managers will do everything to avoid them since their job literally depends on them, hence your bosses boss merely understood the responsibilities and requirements of all stakeholders involved.

A meaningful consulting relationship starts with detailed, reasonable, and sane reporting guidelines, which is very difficult to achieve and don't always work well with a programmers mentality.

Sure, there is tremendous strain (and consequently profit to be made) in the system now, at the expense of overworked doctors with limited interaction with their patients. But if the supply of doctors met market demand _right now_, in 20 years there would be an over supply. An over supply of doctors would introduce a new set of problems associated with lower salaries and eventually lower quality of care (see Soviet Union). So in a way, this artificial market manipulation of the supply of doctors is forcing innovation and timing the population market, and betting on medical advances that will eliminate many doctor visits through preventative medicine or computer asssisted diagnostics.

Essentially the AMA is lobbying to prevent a scenario that created the artificial STEM shortage myth in the 1990's that new career scientists have still not recovered from.

Louis Theroux's "Dark States: Heroin Town" is a good account of how these addictions progress in the US, and some of the reasons for the growing numbers we are seeing.

$ cd ../Projects <-- this does not work, the cwd remains Labs/

"Detection of intact lava tubes at Marius Hills on the Moon by SELENE (Kaguya) Lunar Radar Sounder"

Intact lunar lava tubes offer a pristine environment to conduct scientific examination of the Moon's composition and potentially serve as secure shelters for humans and instruments. We investigated the SELENE Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) data at locations close to the Marius Hills Hole (MHH), a skylight potentially leading to an intact lava tube, and found a distinctive echo pattern exhibiting a precipitous decrease in echo power, subsequently followed by a large second echo peak that may be evidence for the existence of a lava tube. The search area was further expanded to 13.00–15.005°N, 301.85–304.01°E around the MHH and similar LRS echo patterns were observed at several locations. Most of the locations are in regions of underground mass deficit suggested by GRAIL gravity data analysis. Some of the observed echo patterns are along rille A, where the MHH was discovered, or on the southwest underground extension of the rille.

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/c/types.c#L170